The Post Office Act of Anne, 1710, united the Post Offices of England and Scotland under one Postmaster-General, entitled the Postmaster-General of Great Britain, and the Office in Scotland was managed by Deputy. The following is a List of the Deputy Postmasters-General in Scotland from that time down to 1830, when the Office of Deputy Postmaster-General for Scotland was abolished—
1710 George Main
1715 James Anderson
1717 Sir John Inglis
1736 Archibald Douglas
1741 Alexander Hamilton of Innerwick
1766 Robert Oliphant of Rossie
1796 Thomas Elder of Forneth
1799 William Robertson
1802 Robert Trotter of Castlelaw
1807 Hon. Francis Gray, afterwards Lord Gray of Kinfauns
1811 James, 12th Earl of Caithness
1823 Sir David Wedderburn, Bart.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] This appears from the Rolls of Exchequer in Her Majesty's General Register House at Edinburgh.
[2] Oliver & Boyd's New Edinburgh Almanac for 1839, pp. 88-94.
[3] Kennedy's "Annals of Aberdeen," vol. i. page 262.
[4] Rymer's "Fœdera," vol. xix. page 649.